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New Zealand TR class locomotive
🇳🇿 New Zealand ·built by New Zealand Railways Department· from 1924· class of New Zealand shunting locomotives
what is it?
The New Zealand TR class locomotive is a type of diesel shunting locomotives built by many different manufacturers. Defined as "shunting tractors" or "rail tractors" by KiwiRail and its predecessors,, they are classified "TR" for tractor as a result. Many of these locomotives have been withdrawn, but some are still in service.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 102 years ago, in 1924.
- Still in service after 90 years.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1924–1978
- in service from
- 1936
- status
- in service
- number built
- 90
- kind
- Diesel-Mechanical/Hydraulic
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇳🇿 New Zealand
- builders
- New Zealand Railways Department, Drewry Car Co., A & G Price, W. G. Bagnall Ltd., Hitachi, Hillside Engineering, Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns
- operators
- New Zealand Railways Corporation, Tranz Rail, Toll Domestic Forwarding, KiwiRail, New Zealand Railways Department
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,067 mm Cape gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-4-0
- nicknames
- "Rosie" (TR 107), "Timmy" (TR 163), "Tonka Toy" (TR 534)
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6956247, Wikipedia: New Zealand TR class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.